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May 2016 Update: Thumbs up for Supercell

On 18 May 2016, Supercell released a sneak peak for their May updates. Whilst the new troop levels and the Friendly Challenge grabbed the headlines. Supercell quietly introduced a number of improvements they modestly called “other”.

Clash Today verdict:

A very impressive update in prospect, despite only day one of the sneak peaks. If only Supercell prevented a “Friendly challenge” on newly created or amended bases, then this update would receive a very big thumbs up.

However, the “Friendly Challenge” is potentially very divisive, only time will tell how Supercell manage its transition and how the community adpts.

These improvements were:

Edit Mode tools: A bunch of features added to make editing layouts easier

This feature was sorely needed, let’s hope it will cut base building time drastically.

This will be useful in replicating your opponents war base.

Donate fully trained Troops/Spells from production queues even if your army is full

This was demanded by those living in the clouds. Supercell recently opened up chat to those patiently waiting to hit, this will now allow them to donate already trained troops.

Very useful, it was always painful cooking that golem, to find out someone beat you to it. You can now transfer the build time to the hound that another clanmate just requested.

Gem Troops/Spells for donation directly from the donation context menu

Simplifies donating when you want to gem troops. Only a minor improvement but still a nice to have.

War Logs for any Clan can now be publicly viewed, unless disabled in Clan settings

We wait to see how this will be implemented.

In principle, this is welcomed. However, the war community fear it encourage spies to join recent opponents and scout replays for traps and tactics. Many, will no doubt tip their toe, an interesting wait and see.

Builder Suggestions: Tap Builder Info to see and select suggested upgrades to perform